My understanding was that you added an apostrophe only for a singular
subject and an -'s for a plural subject. Thus, Fildes' car is my
wife's car and Fildes's car is the SUV which I'm allowed to use if that
suits the rest of the tribe.
Given my name, I need to know and i gave my copy of Truss' book (!) to
my son - can't anyone go and check it! She is the authority after all.
AndrewF
On 24/01/2005, at 3:28 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Since my gripe was with Gord, here is what Univ of Calgary proposes:
> "If the noun is singular and ends in "s," you may form the possessive
> either
> by adding apostrophe s or by simply adding the apostrophe.
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